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Jackie Speier is a former U.S. Representative from California, serving in the House of Representatives from January 3, 2008, until January 15, 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented California's 14th congressional district. Speier is known for her advocacy on issues such as women's rights, healthcare, and gun control. She gained national attention for her work on the Sexual Assault Survivors' Bill of Rights and her efforts to address military sexual assault. Speier's political career began in the California State Assembly, where she served from 2002 to 2006 before moving to the U.S. Congress.
As I watched yesterday's Senate investigations subcommittee hearing, I was disappointed to discover it was not just the greedy, irresponsible, and likely illegal actions of some of Goldman Sachs' more dubious employees that were the center…
I thank the gentleman for his great commentary. I now would like to recognize from the State of Maryland (Mr. Cummings).
Thank you. I now yield to my good friend from the State of Oregon, Peter DeFazio. Mr. DeFAZIO. Thank you for yielding. I think the American people are a bit confused as to what is really going on here. And, you know, it's a lot like the…
The hardest thing to try to explain to the American people is what is a synthetic CDO and liken it to what goes on in our lives. So I have been scratching my head trying to think of what it would be like. This may not be a good analogy…
Reclaiming my time, you mentioned that they paid a tax rate of less than 1 percent. The average American pays a tax rate of what?
When you speak to the term ``transparency,'' do you think that Goldman would have sold a dollar's worth of those synthetic collateralized debt obligations if people knew that their other client was shorting them and that 90 percent of them…
I thank the gentleman and recognize we could have spoken for 2 hours this evening, and we will continue this. ____________________
I now yield time to my good friend, the gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. Langevin).
I thank the gentlelady from Ohio. It is very important to make the point that Goldman Sachs has never loaned a dime, has never offered a loan to an American trying to buy a house. They have never been a commercial bank as we know them, and…
I thank the gentlelady from Ohio. You referenced the number of people in the Department of Justice that are tasked with doing the investigations. It was very interesting this week when we had the hearing on Lehman Brothers and Mary…
I thank the gentleman from New York for his well-placed comments and his recommendations to our colleagues in the other House. I now have the great pleasure of joining in colloquy with my good friend from the State of Ohio, the great and…
You make the case for this great poster that shows the cracks in Wall Street. And back in 1996, the Federal Reserve reinterpreted the Glass-Steagall Act several times at the behest of Wall Street, eventually allowing bank holding companies…
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